National Treasure: Book of Secrets2007

These are comfort food for me. Disney used to know how to make incredible films that you just want to watch over and over again. Now they make slop you only watch once out of sheer horrific curiosity if you watch it at all. They have destroyed their legacy. A name that was once synonymous with joy, art, invention, and creativity is now a hallmark of greed, corruption, and corporate evil. And this movie doesn’t just represent the decline of Disney and media Über alles but of the degradation and decline of America itself.  There was a time when one could still believe in all this country stands for and that the strength and power of its core message of basic human rights outweighed its inability to actually enforce those beliefs. That there was some point, a line in the sand that we would not cross. Obviously, things are not so black and white, and there have been moments when the powers at be determined it was necessary to cross that line. But always with the ability to go back.  Now the powers at be proudly march across the line, goose-stepping over countless bodies that lie upon it. And when they reach the other side, have the audacity to say that we crossed the line. It is cruel, inhuman, unbelievable, unlawful, unconstitutional, and definitely  UNAMERICAN.  We have fallen so far from the time when I could say I’m proud to be an American. I have only shame. But sometimes when I watch something like this or Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or anything that glorifies the true spirit of America, I remember. And I have hope.